"Fire And Ice" by Robert Frost

 Robert Frost 

An American poet born in 1874 in San Francisco, he is one of the most important poets of the United States in XX century. His first poet was accepted by an editor when he was fourteen years old. Years later, in 1914 he wrote North of Boston, which was a hit in his country.

"Fire And Ice" 

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

Analysis:

    This poem was writing in 1920 by the American poet Robert Frost. This poem is related with how the speaker thinks that the end of the world will be. The author usually writes his poems in a simple vocabulary, and he usually makes reference to daily life. The following characteristics shows how this poem is conformed.

First at all, the title “Fire and Ice” makes reference to the two different ways people considered that how will be the end of the world. The relation that the title has with the entire poem is comprehensible because it based on these two thoughts that the speaker has. At the same time, we can consider the title as the symbolism of this poem because when it mentions fire in this line “I hold with those who favor fire” we can assume that the speaker had suffered bad experiences in his life. Evidently, fire is referring to the terrible and bad things, on the contrary “ice” would make reference to a good scenario and it reflects good things in life.

Another aspect is the theme, it talks about two possible ways of the end of the world, and the first two lines reflect it. Frost presents the idea that there is a group of people who consider that the end of the world is going to be in a specific way, meanwhile there are other people who thinks the opposite. Also, the author considers that fire is the greatest idea, but then he agreed with the another way, that is ice. He refers to this in the fourth, seventh and eight lines.

Finally, this poem is formed by one stanza with nine lines, and its rhyme set stress at the final word, also it follows the pattern ABAABCBCB.

References 

Academy of American Poets. “About Robert Frost | Academy of American Poets.” https://poets.org/poet/robert-frost. November 22, 2020.

‌Academy of American Poets. “Fire and Ice by Robert Frost - Poems | Academy of American Poets.” https://poets.org/poem/fire-and-ice. November 22, 2020.

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